TERMINAL, SERVER, SYSTEM COMPRISING THE SAME, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM HAVING COMPUTER PROGRAM RECORDED THEREFOR

• US 20160005078A1
• Filed: 07/01/2015
• Published: 01/07/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/02/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: SK Planet Co., Ltd. (SK Telecom Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: SK Planet Co., Ltd. (SK Telecom Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: NA, Seung Won
• Application Number:
  US14/789,416
• Publication Number:
  US 20160005078A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0235 constrained by time limit or expiration date
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0256 User search
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0261 based on user location
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0269 based on user profile or attribute

Abstract

The present invention provides a terminal and a server, a system including the same, a control method thereof, and a computer readable medium having a computer program. The present invention can provide an efficient promotion in a specific area by sending out a pre-registered coupon and relevant product coupons corresponding to the coupon to a terminal sensed in a predetermined section, increase sale with additional promotions of relevant products, provides a function of managing poor stock, and improve usability as an offline promotion based on a beacon collection system. Further, present invention provides store information corresponding to a searched product on the basis of the price when the product is searched, additional services, the distance to move for purchasing, a royalty program of an additional discount and a mileage, information about stores having relevant products, and the like, and provides navigation information about a specific store selected by a user.

Claims

1. A content management system comprising:

a storage unit that keeps a plurality of coupons and a plurality of relevant product coupons;

a sensing unit that senses a terminal entering a predetermined section;

a communication unit that communicates with the sensed terminal, receives identification information of the terminal transmitted from the terminal, and transmits the received identification information of the terminal to a could system; and

a control unit that, on the basis of individual information transmitted from the cloud system in response to the transmitted identification information of the terminal, checks a coupon corresponding to the received individual information in the plurality of kept coupons, issues the checked coupon to the terminal, and additionally issues one or more relevant product coupons, which correspond to the coupon issued to the terminal, to the terminal.

2. The content management system of claim 1, wherein the control unit issues a coupon corresponding to age and sex included in the individual information in the plurality of kept coupons to the terminal.

3. The content management system of claim 1, wherein the control unit issues the one or more relevant product coupons right after the coupon corresponding to the individual information is issued, or issues the one or more relevant product coupons together with the coupon corresponding to the individual information, or issues the one or more relevant product coupons before a predetermined date from an expiration date of the coupon on the basis of the term of validity of the coupon corresponding to the individual information.

4. A terminal comprising:

a GPS receiving unit that generates current location information of the terminal;

a storage unit that keeps discount coupon information and discount card information;

a communication unit that communicates with a server;

a control unit that, when receiving a product name of a product, transmits the product name, discount coupon or discount card information kept in advance in the storage unit in connection with the product name, current location information of the terminal, and identification information of the terminal to the server, and that receives a plurality of items of store information searched in correspondence to the product name transmitted from the server and a plurality of items of other store information searched in correspondence to relevant products relating to the product name; and

a display unit that the received store information searched in correspondence to the product name and the other store information searched in correspondence to relevant products relating to the product name.

5. The terminal of claim 4, wherein the store information or the other store information includes at least one of store names, one or more product names or product information in stores, identification information of stores, image information about stores, location information of stores, phone number information of stores, and homepage addresses of stores.

6. The terminal of claim 4, wherein when one item of store information is selected from the store information searched in correspondence to the product name and the other store information searched in correspondence to relevant products relating to the product name, which are displayed on the display unit, the control unit searches a path on the basis of the selected store information and current location information of the terminal checked in real time through the GPS receiving unit, and controls the display unit to display the result of searching a path.

7. A server comprising;

a storage unit that keeps one or more items of store information;

a communication unit that receives a product name of a product transmitted from a terminal, discount coupon or discount card information relating to the product, location information of the terminal, and identification information of the terminal; and

a control unit that searches a plurality of items of store information in the store information kept in the storage unit on the basis of the received product name, the discount coupon or discount card information relating to the product, location information of the terminal, price information of the product corresponding to the product name, royalty program information, additional service information, and a distance, and searches a plurality of items of other store information corresponding to the relevant products relating to the product in the store information kept in the storage unit.

8. The server of claim 7, wherein the control unit searches a plurality of items of store information in one or more items of store information in a section corresponding to location information of the terminal in the store information kept in the storage unit on the basis of the received product name, the discount coupon or discount card information relating to the product, price information of the product corresponding to the product name, royalty program information, additional service information, and a distance.

9. The server of claim 7, wherein the communication unit transmits a plurality of items of store information search in correspondence to the product name and a plurality of items of other store information searched in correspondence to the relevant products relating to the product name to the terminal.